Finger cold-induced vasodilatation, sympathetic skin response, and R-R interval variation in patients with progressive spinal muscular atrophy

Journal of Child Neurology

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 871-875

  Arai, Hidee ^a,b   Tanabe, Yuzo ^c   Hachiya, Yasuo ^d   Otsuka, Eiko ^d   Kumada, Satoko ^d   Furushima, Wakana ^e   Kohyama, Jun ^e   Yamashita, Sumimasa ^f   Takanashi, Jun Ichi ^b   Kohno, Yoichi ^b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION CHIBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHIBA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Metropolitan Fuchu Medical Center for Severe Motor and Intellectual Disabilities   (Japan)

^e TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC TRANSMISSION; ADULT; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD EXPOSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRESSURE SENSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MUSCULAR ATROPHY; RR INTERVAL; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TEMPERATURE SENSE; VASODILATATION; WATER IMMERSION;

ADOLESCENT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLD; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FINGERS; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCULAR DISORDERS, ATROPHIC; REACTION TIME; VASODILATION;

EID: 31144436681     PISSN: 08830738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/08830738050200110301     Document Type: Article

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